Suicide Investigation

A suicide investigation may be part of an official law enforcement case or may be handled by a
private investigator
who specializes in mysterious deaths.

Suicide is a devastating
occurrence for any family to endure and sometimes relatives and friends
simply can not accept that a person would actually kill themselves, no
matter what evidence is presented.

In these circumstances, police or
private detectives
may help to confirm if any foul play was involved or whether the death
was truly an act of the victim’s own hand.

Investigating Suicide

Police may look into cases that they believe may be homicides in which the killer is trying to make it look as if the death was a suicide. In many cases, the death is deemed a suicide, while in other cases, the death may be ruled accidental or murder.

Private investigators are often hired to look into deaths which were ruled suicide or accidental by police, but family or friends suspect a more sinister reality.

In some cases, professional investigators are able to uncover new evidence, which may lead to a revision of the classification of death.

Occasionally, private detectives have been instrumental in actually solving a murder that was expertly disguised as suicide.

Suicide Investigation Factsheet

All suicides are treated as suspicious deaths, until a formal pronouncement is made that the actual cause of death occurred by the victim's own hand.

Assisted suicide is a very complicated matter and these cases might be deemed a voluntary death, yet still incorporate criminal charges against the assistants who helped facilitate the death.

There is much debate about litigation concerning assisted suicide and the penalties which may fit the “crime”. Unfortunately, since the issue is very personal and individualized, it is unlikely that lawmakers will come to any form of compromise which pleases all parties involved in this controversial topic.

Suicide Investigation By Private Eyes

If you have been left to deal with a loved one's apparent suicide,
make sure to cooperate with all official investigative processes by
police and other law enforcement offices.

If you find fault with the
way these investigations are being handled, you may consider
hiring a private investigator
to perform an independent assessment of the matter.

While this may
lead to nothing but a confirmation of the official findings, some
private investigations do change things drastically and can reopen cases in which
death turns out to be homicide or purely accidental.